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Title Visualising China, 1845-1965 : moving and still images in historical narratives / edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series China studies, 1570-1344 ; v. 23
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 23.
Contents Introduction: China Visualised : What Stories do Pictures Tell? / Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh -- Part I. The China Photographs : Three Readings -- Part II. The Visibility of Chinese Women and Home -- Part III. Advertising and Propaganda : The Visual in Public Communications -- Part IV. Moving Pictures
Summary In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Visual communication -- China -- History -- 19th century
Visual communication -- China -- History -- 20th century
Historiography and photography -- China -- History
Motion pictures -- China -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Historiography
Historiography and photography
Motion pictures
Visual communication
SUBJECT China -- History -- 1861-1912 -- Historiography
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Historiography
China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Historiography
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Henriot, Christian.
Yeh, Wen-Hsin
ISBN 9789004233751
900423375X